Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Ensure the stability of the control plane within a distributed microservice architecture that closely interacts with Kubernetes and cloud provider APIs.

• Troubleshoot and resolve intricate Kubernetes issues across various regions and cloud environments.

• Automate the lifecycle of databases, including deployment, resizing, upgrading, and forking.

• Engage in on-call rotations, manage incident responses, and conduct root cause analysis.

• Create back-end features for Tiger Cloud, focusing on a distributed microservice architecture.

• Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to enhance platform capabilities.

• Improve observability and monitoring systems.

• Boost deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling, including CLI interfaces.

• Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams.

• Keep up-to-date with Kubernetes releases and contribute to the system architecture of scalable microservices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years in software or platform engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience with Go in production settings.

• Over 2 years of Kubernetes operations experience, including building, debugging, and scaling clusters.

• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservice architectures.

• Advanced expertise in Go (Golang), specifically Go 1.24+ as the primary development language.

• Proficient Kubernetes user with knowledge of client-go, capable of developing CRDs and controllers.

• Experience in the administration, migration, replication, and performance tuning of PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB.

• Background in using gRPC & Protobufs for service development and schema definition.

• Experience with ECPG and Rust for creating low-latency, memory-efficient applications is a plus.

• Familiarity with Helm Charts for template management and deployment automation.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes Operators and CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions.

• Comfortable with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Pulumi.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO along with comprehensive family leave.

• Enjoy Fridays off during August 😎.

• Opportunities for fully remote work on a global scale.

• Stock options available for long-term growth.

• Monthly stipend for WiFi expenses.

• Access to professional development and educational resources 📚.

• Premium insurance options for you and your family (for US-based employees).